Trucks Fail (via failblog)

That’s one hell of a bridge.

Got this damn song stuck in my head and I can’t get it out.

Sesame Street Layoffs

The notion that physical books are ending their lifecycle is upsetting to people who hold them to be synonymous with literature and terrifying to those who make their living within the existing structures of publishing. As an editor and a lover of books, I sympathize. But why should a civilization that reads electronically be any less literate than one that harvests trees to do so? And why should a transition away from the printed page lessen our appreciation and love for printed books? Hardbacks these days are disposable vessels, printed on ever crappier paper with bindings that skew and crack. In a world where we do most of our serious reading on screens, books may again thrive as expressions of craft and design. Their decline as useful objects may allow them to flourish as design objects.

How the Kindle will change the world. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

Outstanding article by Jacob Weisberg. A lot of people are freaking out about the Kindle due to a misguided idea that physical books are literature.

They aren’t. They are artifacts. Just because we have the Kindle doesn’t mean we are going to start burning our books. All it really means is that instead of having to keep a god damn wall covered with bookshelf after bookshelf of books that I bought and read once, I can keep a single bookshelf with the 50 or 100 books I own that I re-read every year or so, or books that have a sentimental value for me.

Diet Mountain Dew Abe Lincoln (via Themilkman1986)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles tonight was as frickin awesome as Wreslin’ Abe.

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At first I didn’t understand why everyone was drinking lots of beer and wearing green today, but now I realize it’s because of Patrick Duffy’s birthday.

Happy Birthday Patrick Duffy | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

The Boomtown Rats. I Don’t Like Mondays. (via sueuk)

Mondays should be outlawed.

…France, he said, had made peace with Germany, had forgiven Germany for the brutality of invasion and the humiliation of four years of occupation, but it could never - never - forgive the British and Americans for the liberation.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | France’s rendezvous with history

Very good read with the historical context of the strained relationship between France, the UK and the USA.

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Jon Stewart takes a look at CNBC (via soundofflute)

You need to watch this video so you can see how terrible economy news reporting has been for the past couple of years. It is sad that we have to rely on a comedian in order to get the unvarnished truth in the news, because all that the “real” news networks are giving us is fluff.

Is it “in bed” or “except in bed”? I never remember which.

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